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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7520

28 June 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Resource partner Paul Airley has joined Fladgate LLP from McCarthy Tétrault

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, is to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Leeds University

Hill Dickinson has promoted two partners to salaried members and four partners to legal directors

Nottingham-based law firm Rothera Dowson have appointed Paul Brill to the employment law department

Park Court Chambers and New Court Chambers, specialist criminal, commercial and civil sets, merged on 18 June

Dominic Regan on Fairclough Homes, dishonest claims & the Supreme Court

Dr Jayne Allam & Sam Westmacott explore why the Ireland report failed to deliver

Ian Smith provides a round-up of the latest employment law decisions

Crime doesn’t pay out compensation, notes Anna Hughes

Malcolm Dowden considers the liability of a parent company

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

London labour and employment team announces partner hire

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion

NEWS
Pension sharing orders (PSOs) have quietly reached their 25th anniversary, yet remain stubbornly underused. Writing in NLJ this week, Joanna Newton of Stowe Family Law argues that this neglect risks long-term financial harm, particularly for women
A school ski trip, a confiscated phone and an unauthorised hotel-room entry culminated in a pupil’s permanent exclusion. In this week's issue of NLJ, Nicholas Dobson charts how the Court of Appeal upheld the decision despite acknowledged procedural flaws
Is a suspect’s state of mind a ‘fact’ capable of triggering adverse inferences? Writing in NLJ this week, Andrew Smith of Corker Binning examines how R v Leslie reshapes the debate
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
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